Section Rules - Halo 3 Modding Q&A

Ghostlypickel · Post by **Ghostlypickel** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:03 am

How do you connect a "DevKit" to a PC? Also what is the giant brick on the top of the 360 and, explain partnernet please.

kornman00 · Post by **kornman00** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:56 am

Ghostlypickel wrote:How do you connect a "DevKit" to a PC? Also what is the giant brick on the top of the 360 and, explain partnernet please.

1. Installing the XDK, and having a hub with ethernet cords.
2. The sidecar, only useful for real game development, PIX has no use for modding, dvd emu may though.
3. Internal XBL used for developers.

Ghostlypickel · Post by **Ghostlypickel** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:27 am

Is the sidecar removalble? And I know partnernet is for developers but what are its "Specail features"?

latinomodder · Post by **latinomodder** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:32 am

Ghostlypickel wrote:Is the sidecar removalble? And I know partnernet is for developers but what are its "Specail features"?

Please don't ask about or mention partner net on public forums

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:22 am

Where were you the 500 other times it was mentioned?

Veegie · Post by **Veegie** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 11:02 am

Ghostlypickel wrote:Is the sidecar removalble? And I know partnernet is for developers but what are its "Specail features"?

Many things are only accessible on it. I'll leave it at that.
In regards to the sidecar, yes.

latinomodder wrote:
Ghostlypickel wrote:Is the sidecar removalble? And I know partnernet is for developers but what are its "Specail features"?
Please don't ask about or mention partner net on public forums

No.

latinomodder · Post by **latinomodder** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 2:11 pm

Tural wrote:Where were you the 500 other times it was mentioned?

Not caring until I realized you can actually get banned from it and get easily traced

Eaton · Post by **Eaton** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 7:44 pm

I have a question. Ok, I know a few people can mod Halo 3, but what do they do to play the maps? Do they burn the maps to a disk to play them, or is there another method... I have been thinking about this for a while and I would like a simple answer. Thank you!

unknownv2 · Post by **unknownv2** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 7:58 pm

Eaton wrote:I have a question. Ok, I know a few people can mod Halo 3, but what do they do to play the maps? Do they burn the maps to a disk to play them, or is there another method... I have been thinking about this for a while and I would like a simple answer. Thank you!

The people who mod either use devkits or the usermap modding with Anthony resigning the maps.

Eaton · Post by **Eaton** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:01 pm

unknownv2 wrote:
Eaton wrote:I have a question. Ok, I know a few people can mod Halo 3, but what do they do to play the maps? Do they burn the maps to a disk to play them, or is there another method... I have been thinking about this for a while and I would like a simple answer. Thank you!
The people who mod either use devkits or the usermap modding with Anthony resigning the maps.

I thought resigning the maps was completely impossible... It says that in the main post.

What do you mean by usermap modding?

sneakyn8 · Post by **sneakyn8** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:56 pm

Eaton wrote:
unknownv2 wrote:
Eaton wrote:I have a question. Ok, I know a few people can mod Halo 3, but what do they do to play the maps? Do they burn the maps to a disk to play them, or is there another method... I have been thinking about this for a while and I would like a simple answer. Thank you!
The people who mod either use devkits or the usermap modding with Anthony resigning the maps.
I thought resigning the maps was completely impossible... It says that in the main post.

What do you mean by usermap modding?

modding the forge files

Eaton · Post by **Eaton** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 5:12 am

sneakyn8 wrote:
Eaton wrote:
unknownv2 wrote:
Eaton wrote:I have a question. Ok, I know a few people can mod Halo 3, but what do they do to play the maps? Do they burn the maps to a disk to play them, or is there another method... I have been thinking about this for a while and I would like a simple answer. Thank you!
The people who mod either use devkits or the usermap modding with Anthony resigning the maps.
I thought resigning the maps was completely impossible... It says that in the main post.

What do you mean by usermap modding?
modding the forge files

Oh, ok. So tha tis the only way they do it? They don't modify the Halo 3 maps directly? Just the Forge files?

unknownv2 · Post by **unknownv2** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 5:17 am

There's no Halo 3 map resigner, so forge map modding is what they do because Anthony made a CON resigner.

If you want to modify the actual maps, you'll first need a devkit, then get friendly with a couple of people around here.

Eaton · Post by **Eaton** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 5:24 am

unknownv2 wrote:There's no Halo 3 map resigner, so forge map modding is what they do because Anthony made a CON resigner.

If you want to modify the actual maps, you'll first need a devkit, then get friendly with a couple of people around here.

Ah, ok. But all of the best modding takes place directly on the map files so modding forge files must be "limited."

unknownv2 · Post by **unknownv2** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 5:28 am

Eaton wrote:
unknownv2 wrote:There's no Halo 3 map resigner, so forge map modding is what they do because Anthony made a CON resigner.

If you want to modify the actual maps, you'll first need a devkit, then get friendly with a couple of people around here.
Ah, ok. But all of the best modding takes place directly on the map files so modding forge files must be "limited."

It is. That's why the other way is so much funner (to see).

http://halotech.org/Veegie/Images/3.jpg

Lone_Wolf · Post by **Lone_Wolf** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 5:30 am

Im Curious as to what the current modding limetations you guys are at.

Eaton · Post by **Eaton** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 5:31 am

unknownv2 wrote:
Eaton wrote:
unknownv2 wrote:There's no Halo 3 map resigner, so forge map modding is what they do because Anthony made a CON resigner.

If you want to modify the actual maps, you'll first need a devkit, then get friendly with a couple of people around here.
Ah, ok. But all of the best modding takes place directly on the map files so modding forge files must be "limited."
It is. That's why the other way is so much funner (to see).

http://halotech.org/Veegie/Images/3.jpg

Lol. I did see the picture yesterday and that looks really funny. Ok, one more question, how did -DeTox- skin Valhalla? Was that a map mod or a forge mod? Or was it a Photoshop...

Lone_Wolf · Post by **Lone_Wolf** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 5:33 am

It was shader swapping, He swapped the grass shaders for snow shaders, and the water shaders to ice shaders i believe.

unknownv2 · Post by **unknownv2** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 5:34 am

Lone_Wolf wrote:Im Curious as to what the current modding limetations you guys are at.

Pretty much nothing for the regular joe. There's only a handful of people who Anthony trusts and are close enough to him to let them make maps (forge maps) and resign them. But, as great as forge modding is, it is extremely limited because you can only swap things that are on the map.

Then there are those other handful of people here who have devkits and can do a lot more and as they progress, we will start seeing better and better things.

Haha, Photoshop...

Lone_Wolf · Post by **Lone_Wolf** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 5:38 am

Thanks, Just wanted to get that cleared up ^.^
Now my next question.
Is a custom kernal being built?